Soviet Army №23-1974 Armored Forces Academy. Formidable weapon. They will be divers (1974)

Academy of Armored Forces.

Building of the Academy of Armored Forces.

Carrying out the Academy banner during the ceremonial event, the banner is carried along the line of Academy students.

Academy students in formation.

Faces of students during the ceremonial meeting.

The Academy banner crew.

Academy awards attached to the banner.

Meeting of the Academic Council of the Academy.

Head of the Academy, Colonel General O. A. Losik presents diplomas of Doctor of Military Sciences to teachers.

Faces of the Academy teachers and students during the ceremonial meeting.

Academy students in classrooms during classes.

View of one of the classrooms.

Face of a teacher giving a lecture.

Newsreel from the 1920s: M5 heavy tanks on parade on Red Square during a military parade in honor of the next anniversary of the October Revolution.

Voroshilov K. E. at the banner of the First Cavalry Army in 1920. Frunze M. V. passes along the line of the guard of honor during a meeting at the train station in 1923-1924. The crew closes hatches during exercises in the 1930s.

BT tanks attack a simulated enemy.

Corps Commander Zhukov G.K. enters the headquarters dugout during military operations near the Khalkhin-Gol River in 1939. Soviet tanks during military operations against the Japanese.

Kalinin M.I. presents awards to commanders who distinguished themselves in battles with the Japanese in the Kremlin.

Faces of awarded tank crews.

Air battles in 1941. Combat operations of the Red Army on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

Soviet tanks attack the enemy.

Infantry advance supported by tanks.

Students of the Armored Forces Academy during classes in specialized classrooms, laboratories, and on simulators.

A lesson on the material part of a tank.

Students of the Academy choose books from the library catalog during independent study.

Handing out books to officers of the armies of the Warsaw Pact member countries.

Students playing volleyball in the gym.

Gymnastics, track and field and weightlifting classes.

A lesson on the elements of basketball.

An evening of relaxation at the academy.

An artist performing a dance number.

A brass band playing, officers dancing with their wives.

Production processes in the shops of the Hammer and Sickle plant, which patronizes the academy.

Students talking with steelmakers during a visit to the plant.

Conducting an experiment in one of the academy's laboratories, printing out data on a computer.

Teachers and students during practical tests of a tank's chassis on a test bench.

Tanks at the testing ground.

Faces of students during the exercises.

A crew of academy students takes their places in a combat vehicle.

The leader of the tactical lesson gives a command from the observation post.

A column of tanks marches, faces of the crew members.

Conducting combat firing, hitting targets on the move.

Faces of the crew members, the movement of tanks around the testing ground.

Formidable weapon.

Festive artillery salute in the sky over Leningrad.

Faces of jubilant people.

Festive salute over Red Square.

Visitors in the halls of the Artillery Museum.

Thirty-pood bronze mortar, cast by Andrey Chokhov, in one of the halls of the museum.

Various artillery systems of the past in the museum exposition - the Nartov battery, the first Russian rifled cannon.

The piston breech of the Baranovsky rapid-fire cannon, closing the breech.

The barrel of the Baranovsky cannon in the museum exposition.

Artillery guns of various systems and calibers in the halls of the museum.

Newsreel: panoramic view of one of the industrial enterprises of the first five-year plans.

Harvesting on a collective farm in the 1930s.

Tractor driver at the controls of a tractor.

Tracked tractors on platforms of a moving train.

Production process in a foundry.

Anti-aircraft gun in one of the halls of the Artillery Museum.

Portrait of K.E. Tsiolkovsky on the wall of the hall.

Excursion in the museum hall.

Bust of S.P. Korolev.

GIRD-X rocket on display at the museum.

Visitors in the museum halls of the 1930-1940s.

War veteran Parfenov examines his gun installed in the Great Patriotic War hall.

Newsreel: raising the barrel of an artillery gun at positions near Leningrad.

Artillery firing at the enemy, faces of artillery commanders.

Damaged artillery gun in the museum hall. 45-mm anti-tank gun commanded by Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Rytov.

Memorial plaque on the gun shield.

Portrait of Rytov with a description of his feat.

Rytov's grandson places a bouquet of flowers on the gun shield.

Rytov's gun in the museum hall.

Portrait of Rytov.

Faces of schoolchildren.

Ceremonial pioneer line-up in one of the museum halls.

Cadets of the Leningrad Artillery Command School during a meeting with war veteran Dubrovitskaya in the museum hall.

BM-13 Katyusha rocket launcher in the museum hall.

Newsreel: Guards mortar units firing during the Great Patriotic War.

Loading guns and firing.

Loading a rocket launcher during the Battle of Berlin in 1945. Soviet artillery and infantry during street fighting in Berlin.

The gun from which the first shot was fired at Berlin, in one of the halls of the Artillery Museum.

Faces of the naval officers visiting the museum.

The banner pierced by shrapnel.

Former artillery regiment commander Borisenko at the regimental banner.

The face of former regimental commissar Shpartko, who saved the banner.

The banner in the museum exhibition.

Cadets and soldiers listen to the guide's story.

Examples and types of systems in service with the Strategic Missile Forces.

Missile launches.

A missile in one of the museum halls (panorama).

Faces of museum visitors.

View of part of the museum exhibition area.

They will be divers.

Black Sea Fleet sailor Sergei Burda works an oar.

A lesson in boat rowing.

Faces of sailor cadets at the diving school.

Equipment for one of the classrooms.

Cadets during a classroom lesson.

Cadets during a lesson near a visual aid on rescuing the crew of a sunken submarine.

Parts of a diver's equipment.

One of the cadets is putting on a diving suit.

A training dive.

The diver on the bottom maintains contact with the command post using a telephone.

A diver underwater.

The diver's ascent to the surface.

The face of one of the cadets.

Cadets during tests in special pressure chambers, a doctor monitors the physical condition of the cadets.

One of the cadets answers a question from the instructor officer Captain-Lieutenant Sologubov during a class.

Veteran midshipman Shvyrev conducts a theoretical lesson.

A seagull in the sky.

A rescue vessel leaves the bay.

Cadets-divers carry out rescue operations on a motor ship that has received a hole.

Repairing a ship's propeller underwater.

Underwater welding.

A lesson on eliminating holes by driving in plugs.

Surf on the rocks.

Cadets pick flowers in a greenhouse.

A girl with a bouquet of flowers in her hands is riding a bus and talking to the cadets accompanying her.

Cadets on the seashore.

Sea surf.

The face of one of the cadets, the sign of the diving school on the sleeve of the pea jacket.

Seascape, cadets on the shore.